Services
From huge dismantles to small pruning and everything in between.
Felling
Felling involves cutting a standing tree and dropping it in the place you want it.
Dismantles
When a tree is being removed it cannot always be felled. The canopy may have to be taken down in sections for safety or to avoid property damage. This process involves rope access into the canopy along with rope techniques to lower the branches and timber to the ground in a controlled manner.
Crown Reduction
The removal of growth from every branch within the tree canopy to form a smaller more natural shape for the tree. Reductions are carried out in the form of percentages based upon 100% being the entire canopy. For example, to perform a 25% crown reduction would be to make the canopy of the tree smaller by a quarter, 50% crown reduction to reduce the size of the tree's canopy bu a half and so on.
Crown Raise/Lift
Removing selected lower branches of a tree making the canopy of the tree higher. This would usually be performed to allow low level light penetration. For example, to crown raise a tree to 3.5m would mean removing all the lower branches below this height so that the canopy begins at 3.5m.
Coppice
Coppicing is a form of husbandry used mainly in woodland management. It involves the removal of a tree to ground level enabling it to produce new growth from the stump. Certain species of tree react better to coppicing than others such as hazel, willow, ash.
Pollard
Pollarding is often carried out on trees in roadside areas, and those on riversides, but this method of tree management can also be adopted in the domestic garden. It is the removal of the entire canopy of a tree, pruning back to its main branches to form a skeletal style structure. The tree then shoots from the pruning points to re-form a canopy. This process is repeated throughout the life of the tree and is often used to make the canopy of large trees smaller and more manageable.